ELSTON, John Arthur, a Representative from California; born in Woodland, Yolo County,
Calif., February 10, 1874; attended the public schools; graduated from
Hesperian College, Woodland, Calif., 1892; graduated from the University of
California, Berkeley, Calif., 1897; teacher; admitted to the California state
bar, 1901; lawyer, private practice; executive secretary to the Governor of
California, 1903-1907; member of the board of trustees of the State Institution
for the Deaf and Blind, 1911-1914; elected as a Progressive to the Sixty-fourth
Congress and reelected as a Republican to the three succeeding Congresses
(March 4, 1915-December 15, 1921); chairman, Committee on Mileage (Sixty-sixth
Congress); committed suicide in Washington, D.C., December 15, 1921; cremated
and the ashes placed in the California Crematorium, Oakland, Calif.